Beatus populus, cujus Dominus Deus ejus. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.  - Ps 143:15

October 19, 2022

“Pacificus * vocabitur, et thronus eius erit firmissimus in perpetuum”
(I Ant., II Vespers, Solemnity of Christ the King).

Most Reverend Excellency,

I am writing to you on the occasion of the coming Feast of Christ the King, and I permit myself to share with you a certain fundamental question:

Is there still any meaning in celebrating and invoking the grace that this liturgical feast so longed for when it was instituted?

If the King of kings and Lord of lords (cf. 1 Tim 6:15; Apoc. 19:16) were to return today in His glory, would He still recognize His Spouse, the Church?

DE HOC MUNDO

The “secularization” of authority

as a premise for religious freedom and ecumenical dialogue theorized by Vatican II

Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo. "My kingdom is not of this world." - Jn 18:36

REPETITA JUVANT

How with its own self-referentiality the “conciliar church” places itself outside of the path of the Tradition of the Church of Christ

With the prosopopoeia that distinguishes ideological propaganda, the recent Bergoglian panegyric (here) on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Opening of the Ecumenical Council Vatican II did not fail to confirm, beyond the empty rhetoric, the total self-referentiality of the “conciliar church,” that is, of that subversive organization born almost imperceptibly from the Council and which in these sixty years has almost totally eclipsed the Church of Christ by occupying her highest levels and usurping her authority.

To His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, SJ, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

And, by competence:

His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness

His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Peter Turkson, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of the Social Sciences

His Most Reverend Excellency Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life

18 October 2022

Your Eminence,

Last year, on October 23, 2021, I wrote a letter to the President of the United States Bishops’ Conference, which was also sent to you, in which I expressed – as I have already done publicly – my very strong reservations on various extremely controversial aspects regarding the moral legitimacy of the use of experimental gene serums produced using mRNA technology. In that letter, which was written with the help of eminent scientists and virologists, I highlighted the need to update the Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines, due to the scientific evidence that had emerged even then and moreover had been declared by the pharmaceutical manufacturers themselves.

The new political situation that emerges from the recent elections confirms the common feeling of the electorate that some were able to grasp in advance. After two years of disturbing violations of the most elementary rights, and after two governments that have shown us that they are simply obeying the orders of supranational entities who act against the interests of Italy and the Italian people, the vote that has brought into power the so-called Center-Right led by the political party Fratelli d’Italia has unequivocally expressed support for a precise political line that goes far beyond the modest proposals of the program of the coalition parties.

With great scandal for the salvation of souls and the honor of the Church of Christ, the Bishops’ Conference of Belgium has approved and published a rite for the “blessing” of homosexual unions, brazenly contravening the immutable teaching of the Catholic Magisterium, which considers such unions “intrinsically perverse” and which, as such, not only may not bless them but rather must condemn them as contrary to the natural Moral law. The ideological basis of this sacrilegious rite is indicated in the subtly deceptive words of Amoris Laetitia, which states that “every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be respected in his or her dignity and treated with consideration.”

Iuxta crucem tecum stare
Et me tibi sociare
in planctu desidero.

On this solemn day, on which the Church celebrates the Seven Dolors of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Sorrows, my meditation will consider the Seven Dolors, which in sacred iconography we see symbolized by seven swords that pierce the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Mother. I would like to contemplate them in relation to events taking place in the Church, of which Our Lady is Mother and Queen. And not only this: She is a type of the Church, and all that we say about the Mother of God may also be applied in some way to the Bride of the Lamb. This applies not only to the triumphs and glories of both but also to their sorrows and their participation in the Redeeming Passion of Christ.

You shall not kill the fruit of the womb by abortion, and you shall not cause a newborn infant to die.  - Didachè Apostolorum, V, 2

CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ 

Archbishop, Apostolic Nuncio

To my venerable Brothers in the Episcopate

In the glorious martyrs, Holy Church gives us an example of heroic virtues to imitate, showing us how the Grace of God assists those who love Him even to the point of facing torments and death. And while the wicked rage in vain against the bodies of the Martyrs in order to afflict their immortal souls, the Saints triumph with Christ precisely in witnessing to the primacy of Incarnate Truth over error, and of Immolated Charity over the seductions of the world. The palm of Martyrdom draws it sap from the wood of the Cross, and the crown of the Martyrs shines with the rays of the Redeeming Sacrifice of Our Lord.